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Ask any you meet be they young or old, beorc or laguz, of a hero named Ike and you'll receive a warm smile and a tale or two of faith, courage, and honesty.''|Epilogue to ''Radiant Dawn''}}
The ninth and tenth games in the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series, comprising its fifth canon and timeline. The ''Tellius'' games were the first international releases to appear on a home console, and are something of a return to the style of [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|the last console games]] by way of implementing many features not seen since the Jugdral games and their darker art styles and plotting.
* '''''Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance''''' ([[Game Cube]], 2005) stars mercenary Ike, the first non-noble main character of the series, as he aids Princess Elincia in reclaiming her kingdom of Crimea after its fall to the suddenly-aggressive nation of Daein. This game reimplemented the anima magic triangle and the skills system in full, in addition to implementing new features like the base menu, bonus experience
* '''''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn''''' ([[Wii]], 2007) is a direct sequel to ''Path of Radiance'', taking place three years after its beginning. The game is divided into four parts, each starring a different main character. The first arc features Micaiah, the leader of the Dawn Brigade, in her work to liberate the country of Daein from its abuse at the hands of its post-war Begnion occupation, an act which instigates the conflict to come. Following [[arc]]s feature Elincia, now queen of Crimea, dealing with rebellious nobles, and Ike and his mercenaries aiding the Laguz kingdoms in a war against an apparently corrupt Begnion, with the final arc bringing all the characters together in order to avert the destruction of their world.
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* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Going only by appearances, Almedha appears to be a beorc woman in her early or mid thirties, a bit too young to be the mother of Pelleas (who appears to be in his early twenties). Subverted in that {{spoiler|she's a dragon laguz, and dragon laguz age incredibly slowly and stop aging when they reach full maturity, meaning that Almedha was [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]}}, and {{spoiler|she wasn't Pelleas' mother}}. Even so, nobody called her or Pelleas out on it before they figured out the above spoilers.
** Even if {{spoiler|she wasn't Pelleas's mother}}, she did still {{spoiler|have a child with the king; it was Soren, however, not Pelleas
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: A mercenary group with characters such as Ike, Mist, Oscar... who later finds characters with names like Sothe, Zihark, Haar, etc. Somewhat justified, considering the party consists of people from several in-game countries which probably have their own naming customs, but then you have Crimeans named Brom, Renning
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: [[My Country, Right or Wrong|Bryce]], [[Worthy Opponent|Zelgius]], [[Anti-Villain|Shiharam]], [[You Shall Not Pass|Dheginsea]], [[My Master, Right or Wrong|Levail]], {{spoiler|[[Fallen Hero|Sephiran]]}} and to a lesser extent, [[Defiant to the End|Jarod]] and [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Hetzel]] are all people you might feel bad about killing. Possibly Petrine too, given her [[I Don't Want to Die|death quote]].
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: You spend most of ''Radiant Dawn'' switching between various different parties, though the most abrupt case is early in Part 2, where you play through the prologue as Elincia, then switch to [[Lower Deck Episode|Nephenee]] for
* [[Animorphism]]: All the laguz.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The titular Fire Emblem, also known as Lehran's Medallion. {{spoiler|A bit of a subversion in that the Goddess trapped inside is not inherently evil, only chaotic
▲* [[Aerith and Bob]]: A mercenary group with characters such as Ike, Mist, Oscar... who later finds characters with names like Sothe, Zihark, Haar, etc. Somewhat justified, considering the party consists of people from several in-game countries which probably have their own naming customs, but then you have Crimeans named Brom, Renning, and Kieran, as well as Daeinians named Jill and, in Radiant Dawn, Edward and Nolan.
* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Micaiah feels this way when, during a battle, {{spoiler|Tibarn sweeps in and snatches up Sothe, hovering over a cliff with him in tow, demanding her army surrenders or he drops him.}} "Individual lives taken before your eyes weigh more heavily than the many lives taken during the chaos of war. If that life is someone dear, the burden is even worse." {{spoiler|Pelleas reasons.}}▼
▲* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]: You spend most of ''Radiant Dawn'' switching between various different parties, though the most abrupt case is early in Part 2, where you play through the prologue as Elincia, then switch to [[Lower Deck Episode|Nephenee]] for chapter 1. Also sudden is the single chapter in Part 3 played as Geoffrey.
▲* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The titular Fire Emblem, also known as Lehran's Medallion. {{spoiler|A bit of a subversion in that the Goddess trapped inside is not inherently evil, only chaotic.}}
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: The Royal Laguz are selected as the strongest in the tribe. To get the throne, you must fight the king or queen and defeat him.
** Ashnard also has this attitude... and takes it [[Blood Knight|way]], '''''[[Social Darwinist|way]]''''' [[Bad Boss|too]] [[Complete Monster|far]].
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Skrimir starts off exhibiting this mentality, going so far as to actually utter the phrase "Advance! Advance! Advance!" at Fort Flaguerre.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Played with with Elincia, who is a useful unit in
* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Technically, you can do this with any units you feel like setting it up with, but Ike and Gatrie do it in a cutscene.▼
* [[Badass]]: Nearly all of the playable characters, as usual. [[Large Ham|Ashn]][[For the Evulz|ar]][[Evil Laugh|d]] as well, who before becoming king basically spent his free time singlehandedly murdering other armies in border skirmishes.
* [[Badass Boast]]: Stefan gets one in Radiant Dawn if you have him battle Duke Numida.
{{quote|'''Numida''': Wh-who are you?
'''Stefan''': I am the desert, and I brook no intrusions. Make peace with your goddess.
* [[The Battle Didn't Count]]:
▲* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Technically, you can do this with any units you feel like setting it up with, but Ike and Gatrie do it in a cutscene.
**
** The same holds true for any of the battles between Ike's forces and Micaiah's: If you're playing as Ike, none of the PCs in Micaiah's army actually die, or vice versa.
* [[BFS]]:
** Ettard, Ragnell and Alondite.
** Impressive by the fact that Begnion's first apostle, Altina, wielded BOTH Ragnell AND Alondite.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Ike and Soren's relationship in three words or in five: Ike is Soren's big brother.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: At the end of
* [[Big Eater]]: Ilyana, who remains thin as paper throughout the game and spends all of her support conversations either on the point of passing out from hunger or chewing on Mia's shoes. She also is a ''twig'', and uses her looks to charm food out of guys. A common fan theory is that she has a tapeworm. Her death quote in ''Radiant Dawn'' even has her ''complaining that she's dying on an empty stomach''.
** Not as pathological as Ilyana, but the beast laguz and to a lesser extent the hawk laguz are known to eat a lot. Special note goes to Skrimir, as mentioned in an info conversation. In that same conversation, the characters compare Ike's appetite to a laguz and conclude that they're going to need a lot more food for the journey.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The ancient language is a fairly simple one-to-one English cipher (spoken, it's just backwards Japanese), so players with a key can read exactly what various characters are saying. While the translated dialogue is usually fairly serious, Volug and Leanne's support conversations are actually rather funny, since both of them know nobody else speaks their language.
{{quote|'''Volug''': ''(...Hey. You ever wonder what would happen if I just ate everyone we fought? Would the rest keep fighting?)''
'''Leanne''': [[Hello, Insert Name Here|____]]... Be... Be safe. I want to... stay with you, ''(now and always. By the way, [[Lethal Chef|can you cook?]])''
* [[Birthmark of Destiny]]: The Branded, as well as those with the [[Blessed with Suck|Spirit's Protection]].
* [[Black Knight]]: Current page image.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: According to a support conversation, some mages can invite a spirit to enter their bodies, allowing it to consume said mage's soul in exchange for essence (i.e. power).
{{quote|'''Soren''': Magic comes from interaction with spirits. If you let one into your body, it will give you tremendous power... [[Deal with the Devil|for a price
* [[Book Ends]]: An inversion regarding the [[Recurring Riff|Fire Emblem Theme]]. ''Path of Radiance'' seems at first like it might have discarded the iconic tune, until {{spoiler|the very end. You hear a bit of it in the background of the last cutscene, and in ''[[Metroid]]''-like fashion, the theme returns with a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|rousing vengeance]] on the last screen of the game (the Unit Records). In turn, the theme is one of the first tunes you hear in ''Radiant Dawn'', on the main menu
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: What Shinon does to save Rolf in
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Variation:
{{quote|'''Jill''': ...Ashnard... [[Say My Name|Ashnard]]!! [[Rule of Three|ASHNARD!!]] [[This Is Unforgivable!|I... will never forgive you!]] [[You Monster!|NEVER!!!]]}}
* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: In ''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'', normal humans are referred to as "beorc," though beorc usually refer to themselves as humans, while laguz (the game world's other humanoid race), who dislike beorc, use the word "human" as an insult. Meanwhile, the beorc use the term "sub-human" to refer to Laguz, and again, this is meant to be an insult.▼
* [[The Caligula]]: Daein's new rulers (Pre-Pelleas) are really ''really'' not so interested in actually ''running'' Daein so much as suppressing it...
▲* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: In ''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'', normal humans are referred to as "beorc
* [[Call Back]]: In an info conversation in ''Path of Radiance'', Ike and Soren discuss how neither one of them likes to pack unnecessary items, and they both travel light. In ''Radiant Dawn'', Soren's support ending with Ike mentions that he "lightly packed" before leaving with him.
* [[Character Development]]: ''Path of Radiance'' had many conversations for each character, and they can be found on www.serenesforest.net/fe9. However, as usual for a ''Fire Emblem'' game, each character could only have 5 conversations per playthrough (many characters have over 10 conversations, so it takes a while).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Ragnell is first presented in this way, during Greil's battle with the Black Knight. Over a ''much'' longer period of time, so is Urvan.
* [[The Chessmaster]]:
** Lekain ''thinks'' he's this, but he's actually just another one of the true [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster's]] [[Unwitting Pawn]]s. What's more, he's pretty much {{spoiler|the whole reason Sephiran started his scheme in the first place}}.
* [[A Child
* [[Child Soldiers]]: Leonardo, Rolf, Mist, Tormod, Sanaki, Sothe in ''Path of Radiance'', Laura and Edward.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: "You mean Naesala's betrayed us? Again?"
** Eventually justified in Radiant Dawn: {{spoiler|Lekain has him under a Blood Pact that will slowly kill off his people if he doesn't do what the leader of Begnion tells him to. Apparently, the Blood Pact didn't specify who the "leader of Begnion" was, as neither Naesala nor Kilvas suffer any ill effects when he fights for Sanaki. Then again though, seeing as Kilvas is kind of statues at the time}}...
* [[Crutch Character]]: Zig-zagged, unusually for a ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game. Several characters play the role of [[Crutch Character]] like Titania, but have decent enough growths for them to remain feasible throughout the entire game
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: In ''Radiant Dawn'', Kurthnaga forced a ceasefire by virtue of being [[Person of Mass Destruction|as large as a castle and able to blow it up]]. When he gets on the battlefield, however, you find out he's only around level 20 (halfway to his max), his accuracy is subpar and he's incredibly slow. Most people use a lot of their BEXP to get him to a decent level so he doesn't die all the time.
* [[Deconstructor Fleet]]: ''Radiant Dawn'' pretty much goes on a pretty big deconstruction in
** Part
** Likewise,
** Ike being THE hero and inspiring others? Sounds great, but it also meant a lot of young people got the idea in their head that they too could start a rebellion and become a famous warrior.
** Micaiah being an All-Loving Heroine who would easily lead her kingdom to safety and honor? Nope. [[War Is Hell]], and she can't do anything to curb Daein's racism.
** The famous hero getting the girl and becoming an honorable king through marriage? Ike greatly resents nobility and has zero romantic interaction with Elincia.
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* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]:
** Parts of ''Path of Radiance'''s [[Dummied Out]] content included plenty of indications that {{spoiler|1=the Black Knight = Zelgius}}, such as {{spoiler|the internal filename of ''Against the Black Knight'' and that Zelgius's unused stats and growths are identical to those of the Black Knight}}.
** Also as mentioned in a [[Let's Play]],
** The game also includes several unused names, such as {{spoiler|Yune and Astartyune; known to English speakers as Ashunera}}.
** There are numerous conversations in ''Radiant Dawn'' which are nearly impossible to see—including a death quote for the Black Knight in Part 1, where nothing can physically harm him (incidentally, [[We Cannot Go on Without You|his death is also programmed to trigger a Game Over]]).
** Greil's combat animation looks a bit... weird... compared to Ike's or Boyd's in the prologue of ''Path of Radiance''
** To defeat {{spoiler|Ashera, Ike must deal the finishing blow with Ragnell. To actually harm Ashera to begin with requires one's weapon be blessed by Yune partway through the Endgame, so if Ike doesn't have Ragnell equipped then for some reason, one cannot defeat Ashera. With this scenario clearly in mind, the game ensures that in the event that Ike ''doesn't'' have Ragnell equipped at that point, Yune automatically prompts him to do it and ensures Ragnell will be blessed
* [[Double Entendre]]: The battle conversation between {{spoiler|Nailah and Tibarn}} is one giant
* [[Duel Boss]]: The Black Knight, in both games.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Several characters, such as Lekain and Hetzel, make minor appearances in ''Path of Radiance'', but aren't relevant to the plot until ''Radiant Dawn''.
* [[Easter Egg]]: Overlapping with [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]], on the final map in Part
* [[Easy Mode Mockery]]:
** An unintentional example, overlapping with [[Game Breaking Bug]]: When attempting to transfer data from ''Path
** Another example
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: The Greil Mercenaries.
* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: The Laguz Royals, {{spoiler|Sephiran}} if you're on a second save. If they're RNG Blessed, Sanaki and Pelleas can also be this
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The Daunt skill is described as the fear variant and has the effect of lowering enemies' hit and crit chances. Makes sense on the enemies that it's exclusive to in ''
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Critical hits, again, as well as every other winpose in ''Radiant Dawn
* [[Expecting Someone Taller]]: Ike's first meeting with [[A Child Shall Lead Them|the apostle of Begnion]]. He also says something along this line in ''Radiant Dawn'' when facing Pelleas.
* [[Expy]]: Sothe resembles Joshua Bright from ''[[Legend of Heroes VI]] Sora no Kiseki SC'', I mean, [http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g90/Kaitou_Saiyuri/Fire%20Emblem/Sothe.png just take a] [http://www.falcom.co.jp/sorasc_psp/character/detail/joshua_02.jpg look at them!] [[Palette Swap]], and you barely notice their differences!
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Oscar has this expression. Lampshaded at one point (at least in the English version), when Kieran calls him, among other things, "Squinty
* [[N-Word Privileges|Fantastic N Word Privileges]]: Beorc refer to themselves and each other as "human" without a second thought (perhaps because they don't know that laguz use it as an insult), but if a laguz says it to one, it's meant as an insult (though it's not always effective). "Sub-human," on the other hand, is always malicious.▼
* [[Fantastic Racism]]:
** The various shapeshifting Laguz tribes are called "sub-humans" by many beorc/humans. This is not limited to your enemies
** And let's not get started on what [[Half-Human Hybrid|hybrids]] between the two have to put up with.
** While Lethe learns to treat beorc better, she still makes sweeping generalizations about them, implies they are inferior in their customs, and the word "human" escapes her lips sometimes.
** Ike notably averts this. Not only doesn't he exhibit any hatred of other races (he does use the slur "sub-human" once, out of ignorance, but afterward sticks to "laguz"), he doesn't really seem to understand what the fuss is all about. When {{spoiler|Soren reveals to Ike that he's a Branded, a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] generally shunned by both beorc and laguz}}, Ike's reaction is basically "So what? [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Why should that even matter to me?]]".
* [[Fantastic Slur]]: [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|Halfbreed and hairball]] are also used to refer to laguz.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The general plot of ''Path of Radiance'' seems has some parallels with World War II, particularly in the roles of many of the countries. Daein/Germany is a bigoted, militaristic aggressor nation, Crimea/France is a cultured nation invaded by said agressor state, Bengion/Britain is a powerful, aristocratic empire to whom Crimea/France appeals to for help, and the Laguz/United States are isolationists who come to join the Allies when they realize Daein/Germany threaten them. To top it all off, the leader of the allied force is called Ike.
* [[Fielding Old Men and Boys]]: The Daein Liberation Army.
* [[Fog of War]]: Only in hard mode for ''Path of Radiance''; ''Radiant Dawn'' adds braziers that are basically infinite-duration stationary torches that can be lit/extinguished by units.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: There's some pretty effective foreshadowing in these games. For example, when Pelleas mentions that he was tricked into a blood pact by Lekain, he tells of what Lekain tells him. Now, much ''much'' later,
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: When you recruit Makalov in ''Path of Radiance'', Ike mentions that they paid all of his debts back. Nothing happens to your current inventory of gold, meanwhile
* [[Gay Option]]: Ike and Soren or Ranulf's supports, either that or [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].
* [[Genki Girl]]: ''Mia''.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
*
** Support conversations in the GBA games previously fell into this, but it's averted in the Tellius games.
*** Supports in ''Path of Radiance'' are built up by simply bringing supporting units into chapters together. After enough chapters, you get a support convo at the base. No more, no less
*** The system is roughly the same in ''Radiant Dawn'', although you can speed up the process by having supporting units perform actions next to each other (attack, heal, ect
** Want to recruit {{spoiler|Stefan}}, one of the best characters of the first game? You can only do it in one mission, by sending one of your laguz characters to stand on a single square that's so far off the beaten path they pretty much won't be participating in the fight. There's nothing in-game to tell you this, or that {{spoiler|Stefan}} even exists, though a few players might find the area you need to go conspicuous, seeing as it's a massive detour that leads to a dead end.
*** The same applies to recruiting him in the second game, although now Micaiah can be added to the list of characters capable of recruiting him. In the same chapter, there's a Laguz Gem, an item that will be immensely helpful in the endgame, that can only be found by {{spoiler|sending a unit, probably Sothe but you still have a chance with another unit, to the boss's position. Since the mission ends when all enemies are killed, this means keeping at least one unit alive until you can get Sothe over there
** Re-recruiting {{spoiler|Shinon}} in ''Path of Radiance'', to a slightly lesser degree. You have to talk to him with Rolf, then kill him with Ike. Yes, you have to kill him to recruit him
** From the second playthrough onward, ''
* [[Hair Color Spoiler]]: While he slightly shares the same hair color of his supposed father, {{spoiler|Pelleas has no other features that make him resemble either Ashnard or Almedha. Soren, on the other hand, looks like a younger, male Almedha complete with hair and eyes. Not a coincidence
*
* [[Healing Hands]]: Micaiah's Sacrifice ability. It was even called that in the Japanese version.
* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Three notable ones
** Sanaki {{spoiler|and Micaiah}} are direct descendents of Altina, one of Ashera's three heroes and the first queen of Begnion. {{spoiler|They are also descended from Lehran
** Rajaion, Kurthnaga
** Stefan is heavily implied to be descended from the seldom referenced third hero
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: The Branded village in Grann Desert where Stefan comes from. The dragon kingdom of Goldoa is a partial example, as most know where it is, but they are isolated from the world, rarely leaving or allowing others to come. Despite what it seems, this is not due to being xenophobic (they are one of the few laguz tribes with ''no'' signs of prejudice towards beorc or other laguz) or due to being [[Someone Elses Problem|uncaring about what happens outside their borders]], but rather due to {{spoiler|Dheginsea feeling the dragon laguz are too powerful and dangerous to live among the other tribes, as if they were involved in a war, the chaos would awaken the dark god and cause the end of the world
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: '''KIERAN, LEADER OF THE FIFTH PLATOON OF THE CRIMEAN ROYAL KNIGHTS!'''
* [[Wife Husbandry|Husband Husbandry]]: Micaiah found Sothe as a child and raised him, but due to her long lifespan, she looks younger than Sothe in the current game. However, they are so far ahead of everyone else as a canon couple that they start out with max support for each other. You HAVE to go out of your way to make them not end marrying each other.
* [[I Am Your Opponent]]: Ranulf, before challenging Zelguis to single combat:
{{quote|'''Ranulf''': I'm Ranulf, right hand to Gallia's future king. ''(Morphs into cat form)'' Will that do?}}
* [[I Found You Like This]]: In ''Path of Radiance'', Ike's patrol comes across Princess Elincia half alive in the shrubs. Her convoy was attacked by Daein soldiers as she attempted to flee Crimea. Awakens inside the Greil Mercenaries' base.
* [[I Let You Win]]:
** {{spoiler|The Black Knight}} in ''Path of Radiance'', according to a [[Woolseyism]].
** And Greil to Ike, at the beginning of ''Path of Radiance.'' Ike could tell that Greil had let him win, but {{spoiler|couldn't tell that the Black Knight had also let him win because he has been sparring against Greil his whole life up to that point, but only fought the Black Knight a few times
* [[Informed Ability]]: Izuka's actions all contradict the claims he is a brilliant strategist (His proposed solution to liberate a
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Mostly in the background, but almost all of the game's events can ultimately be traced back to the relationship between
* [[In the Blood]]: {{spoiler|Soren, the most cunning and amoral member of the Greil Mercenaries, turned out to be Ashnard's son
* [[Irony]]: There is superstition about branded having special powers but the only benefit they really get has the drawback of making them easily spotted by enemies. Amusingly, some of them survive ''Radiant Dawn'''s end game because the enemy overlooked them.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Elincia becomes this in ''Radiant Dawn''. As a [[Let's Play]] put it, she is a ''very'' effective healer, but can also be an effective tank or damage-dealer. She starts off as a [[Crutch Character]] in
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The Tellius bilogy has arguably one of the most complex yet compelling scripts ever written by Nintendo.
* [[Joke Character]]: {{spoiler|Oliver}} in ''Radiant Dawn'', who is likely outclassed by the time you recruit him, but has plenty of special dialogue with bosses and other characters, much of it [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]].
* [[King of Beasts]]: Caineghis is a very literal one.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] {{spoiler|If you're playing ''Radiant Dawn'' for a second time,
* [[Last Chance Hit Point]]:
*
** In ''Radiant Dawn'', with the new Skill system, anyone can use Miracle now.
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]:
** The Black Knight's identity was revealed in an Nintendo produced fact sheet before ''Radiant Dawn'' was even out in English!
** Strangely inverted
** The concept of being Branded, explicitly mentioned in only three (including two that featured an [[Guide Dang It|extremely obscure]] character) specific support paths in ''Path of Radiance'', is part of the main plot in ''Radiant Dawn'' from early on. And the game assumes you know
* [[Leader]]: Several given how many [[Loads and Loads of Characters|countries and factions there are.]] Notably:
** Micaiah of the Dawn Brigade as a type IV. She was later recruited to use that persona be a morale booster for the Daein Army, was just so endearing she became the general of the army and later queen of the country. of course she took on more type II qualities as the story went on.
** Both Skrimir and Tibarn come off as type III's of their respective armies.
** Ike matures into a type II for the Greil Mercenaries and Crimean Army in the first game. In the second, he becomes a type IV for the entire continent even among other generals, strategists, empresses
* [[Lord British Postulate]]: In one chapter of ''Radiant Dawn'', {{spoiler|Lekain}} appears on the field for a couple turns, and then leaves. During the time they're on the field, it is actually possible to reach them and kill them. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|They simply retreat upon being defeated]].
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Part 2,
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The fight {{spoiler|with the Black Knight}} in ''Path of Radiance''. If Ike has his relevant stats maxed (almost impossible for him not to if he hasn't been left out of the action), you still need Aether to activate at least once before the battle ends. If it does, you win! It doesn't? [[Game Over|Too bad
* [[MacGuffin]]: Lehran's Medallion in the first game.
* [[Magikarp Power]]:
** Elincia can be this in ''Path of Radiance'', before becoming a [[Crutch Character]] in ''Radiant Dawn'' (at least during
** Sanaki in ''Radiant Dawn'' joins very late, has some low stats in some areas, a very powerful weapon, and has the lowest health in the game... but also has the highest growths in the game, arguably the ''entire series''.
** Mist also applies to a lesser degree. Although she never catches up with the top tier characters, her [[Combat Medic]] status can be extremely useful, and even be a total life saver during {{spoiler|the final duel against the Black Knight in ''Path of Radiance''}} if you have been training her properly.
** Vika also competes with Sanaki in ''Radiant Dawn'' for this
* [[Marathon Level]]:
** The third part of the Endgame of ''Radiant Dawn''. So many [[Demonic Spiders|dragons]]... When you finally reach Big D, he's the first boss to constantly regenerate and is immune to all but a select set of weapons. The good news is that you get to choose those weapons. The bad news is that [[Guide Dang It|you don't know about his defenses]] until
** Also in ''Radiant Dawn'', there's 4-5, "Unforgivable Sin
▲* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: Micaiah feels this way when, during a battle, {{spoiler|Tibarn sweeps in and snatches up Sothe, hovering over a cliff with him in tow, demanding her army surrenders or he drops him
* [[Mini Boss]]: Nedata in the "Gallia" level, a hilariously stereotypical pirate.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: At one point, Shinon is scolded for disrepecting the dead when he is caught taking weapons off them. However, you are not only able able to take a whole bunch of stuff from various enemies when you kill them, you just leave their corpses laying on the ground to decompose. You can also outright steal their stuff when they're alive. Plus, it will most likely seem rather silly for ''Soren'' to berate Shinon for looting corpses when their team is the one making them in the first place. It was only this to Shinon's point of view: he thought he was being judged, but [[Pragmatic Villainy|Soren was only annoyed that he was wasting time]].
▲* [[N-
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Both games are fairly difficult, but ''Radiant Dawn'' takes it to levels not seen since ''Thracia 776''.
* [[No Hero Discount]]: Taken to absurd levels in ''Radiant Dawn'', where {{spoiler|THE ENTIRE WORLD besides your company has been paralyzed, and you're gearing up to fight against the Goddess to save the world. What's that, you want a forged silver sword to save the world? Sorry, you don't have enough
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]:
▲*** The first act with the Dawn Brigade is particularly hard. Your characters die easily, you don't get very many usable people, and you can't level up characters that would otherwise be useful due to an alarmingly thin EXP pool.
*
▲* [[No Hero Discount]]: Taken to absurd levels in Radiant Dawn, where {{spoiler|THE ENTIRE WORLD besides your company has been paralyzed, and you're gearing up to fight against the Goddess to save the world. What's that, you want a forged silver sword to save the world? Sorry, you don't have enough.}}
▲* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: Most of the Tier 3 mastery skills in Radiant Dawn. Many of them, like deadeye and stun, have effects to put enemies to sleep or paralyze them, but there's a good chance the player will never see these effects, since they're also effectively critical hits and almost always kill before their effects take hold.
** Eclipse gets a special mention, in that it not only negates defense but multiples {{spoiler|the Black Knight's}} strength by FIVE. It activates on his skill stat, so he always has a fixed 40% chance to rip his opponent apart to the tune of 208 damage, which even the final boss couldn't live through. Ye gods.
* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Let's just say the Spanish dubbers seem to actively be trying to get ''every'' name wrong and leave it at that. The voices are very decent, at least.
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** Congrats, because the German dubs both pronounce the names oddly and the chosen voice actors just don't seem to sound good or well-chosen.
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Chapter 3-11 in ''Radiant Dawn'' is Chapter 23 from ''Path of Radiance'', only your army is moving from Crimea to Daein and not vice-versa.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Possibly Mist. A conversation with Caineghis early in ''Path of Radiance'' reveals that her mother had been killed "more than ten years ago
** All laguz are older than they look. Deghinsea, for example, looks like a regular man entering his 50s yet [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|is really over 1000 years old
** Branded also seem to inherit this gene to some degree.
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Data from ''Path of Radiance'' can be transferred to ''Radiant Dawn''. Characters that have reached the level cap and capped at least one stat in ''Path of Radiance'' gain a + 2 bonus to that stat in ''Radiant Dawn'' (or in Sothe's case, his exact stats if they are higher). A-supports in ''Path of Radiance'' become bonds and can unlock additional conversations.
* [["On the Next..."]]: ''Radiant Dawn'' has this at the end of the first three parts.
* [[One-Dollar Retainer]]: In ''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn'' Volke, a master assassin who charges for ''everything'' <ref>to the point that, in gameplay, every lock and pocket you have him pick costs you money</ref>, demands only 3000 gold (small even at the start of the game, and explicitly noted by another character as "negligible") to kill {{spoiler|Izuka}} in the final level before the game's finale. By contrast he demands ''100,000'' to reveal why he set this low price. Why? {{spoiler|"I don’t like that guy." While Izuka is a sociopathic vivisectionist, what ''exactly'' prompts this attitude from a miserly professional murderer like Volke, who is never seen interacting with Izuka beforehand, is never elaborated on beyond Izuka recognizing Volke.}} To make the 3000 gold even more negligible, paying him unlocks a scene in the next level where he gives a refund for a previous job he never got to complete {{spoiler|since someone else killed the target first}} for a net ''profit'' of 17,000 gold.
* [[Outside the Box Tactic]]: The Black Knight
* [[Panty Shot]]: The 3D models for battle result in a few, primarily Ilyana (dark blue) and Mist (Black and light pink).
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Hetzel, the ''one'' Begnion senator who wasn't necessarily evil. He did indeed purchase Rafiel as a slave, but did so to nurse the heron prince back to health, and he later sent him to Serenes Forest to be free. He regrets fighting you when you do, and does so out of fear of Lekain and the other senators. There were even implications that he could have been spared.
* [[Plot Armor]]: Like most ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games, most characters who are important to the plot will retreat when <s>killed</s> injured, removing them from gameplay but allowing them to stay around for the story. Unlike the previous games, however, many of the characters who normally have [[Plot Armor]] (such as Sothe, Soren
* [[Puppet State]]: Crimea was suzerain to Begnion in ''Radiant Dawn''.
* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: A bandit takes Rolf and Mist hostage early on in the first game, and tells everyone to do this. Titania, seemingly grabbing the [[Idiot Ball]], tells everyone to comply, after which the bandit simply decides to kill them anyways. Turns out that Titania was just stalling for time to let [[Cold Sniper|Shinon]] get a clear shot.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: The Heron tribe have hair between waist-long (males) and feet-long (females).
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Sanaki becomes this in ''Path of Radiance'', although at first, she appears to be a spoiled little kid
* [[Regional Bonus]]: The PAL version of ''Radiant Dawn'' fixed the [[Game Breaking Bug]] in the [[Old Save Bonus]], and fixed [[Inconsistent Dub|a few name inconsistancies with the first game]] and a couple of utter [[Blind Idiot Translation]]s
* [[Retraux]]: The icon for ''Path of Radiance'' save data.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: A rather gripping one in near the end of Part 3 in ''Radiant Dawn''.
* [[Secret Character]]:
** On a [[New Game+]] in ''Radiant Dawn'', {{spoiler|Pelleas}} and {{spoiler|Sephiran}} can be recruited if the player performs certain actions.
** Oliver also counts in ''Radiant Dawn'', due to an extreme amount of [[Guide Dang It]] and a [[Violation of Common Sense]]
* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: In a non-divination example, the boss of "Solo" takes unarmed priests hostage and uses them as human shields in an attempt to survive because he thinks the invading army (you) won't let some mercenaries that were on the opposing side before the army took the capital (him) surrender peacefully (when this is exactly what Ike would do given his character), so the only reason Ike kills him is his attempt to prevent him from doing so.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Nephenee when she upgrades from Halberdier to Sentinel (and ditches the [[Zettai Ryouki]] look she had).
* [[Shout-Out]]: An [[Dual Boss|early pair of bandits]] in ''Radiant Dawn'' share the faces of another [[Dual Boss]] pair of bandits from the
** Which were themselves a shout out to a dual boss pair from the sixth game.
** In ''Path of Radiance'', there is one support conversation between the three Pegasus knights; they are training, and Tanith shouts "DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!". Coincidence? [[Gaunt's Ghosts|We don't think so.]]
* [[Ship Sinking]]:
** ''Radiant Dawn'' is merciless about this. You can choose to ignore it in favor of your own little fantasies but canon is canon.
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** Soren and Geoffrey sink their ships with Stefan and Calill respectively in roughly the same way: a line or more in the A support that explicitly mentions a preference for the rival—the only other support option either has.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Elinicia delivers an awesome one to Ludveck at the end of Part 2 in ''Radiant Dawn''. It's even more awesome in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120922101708/http://www.serenesforest.net/fe10/script/2_Fb.html Japanese script], which has extended dialogue.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: In the Japanese previews of ''Radiant Dawn'', Ike and the Greil mercs were nowhere to be seen
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Surprisingly, {{spoiler|Ashnard}} fits this mold pretty well, though the only way to find out about it is through a boss conversation he has with... ''Reyson'', who probably won't survive the ensuing battle due to his pathetic defenses.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Ashnard'''}}: If you are stronger than those around you, you should benefit from your strength. This is why I will use my strength to remake this world. Class and rank will not matter. Human and sub-human will not matter. The strong will possess everything. The weak will submit to their will. Is this not the meaning of peace?
'''Reyson''': Are you saying that the lives of those without strength have no value?
{{spoiler|'''Ashnard'''}}: That is the natural order. The only way for the weak to survive is to cling to the strong.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Mia's backstory. Leads to the hilarious [https://web.archive.org/web/20140806223214/http://serenesforest.net/fe9/support/046.html Mia x Largo supports].▼
* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: Elincia tries to prevent the Begnion Army and the Laguz Alliance from fighting. It doesn't work, but at least she could convince the Laguz that not all [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]].
▲* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Mia's backstory. Leads to the hilarious [https://web.archive.org/web/20140806223214/http://serenesforest.net/fe9/support/046.html Mia x Largo supports].
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: ''Radiant Dawn'' presents us with gems such as "Moldy onions!" and "Hornet hairs!"▼
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
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** Marcia loves this trope. She swears... using ''food''. "Oh, crackers!"
* [[Wasted Song]]:
**
** Earlier example from ''Radiant Dawn'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPTaBnfEhg "Echoes of Daybreak"], a very unusual and interesting map theme that you'll hear in the first two chapters, and then never again. Very easy to forget about it too, as ''Radiant Dawn'' has a massive soundtrack.
* [[Water Source Tampering]]: In ''Radiant Dawn'', Micaiah rejects this as a tactic to take out a well defended enemy base when it's suggested. Rather than point out the questionable ethics involved, she explains that people would ''see'' it as a questionable act, and start to question their motives, maybe turn against them. More importantly, the base is a prison camp they are attempting to liberate for manpower, and this would hit the prisoners as well.
* [[Weapon Tombstone]]: [[An Axe to Grind|Greil's axe, Urvan]]. In ''Radiant Dawn'', it comes back as the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Axe]].
* [[Wham! Line]]: While it was rather heavily foreshadowed, when
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Sephiran''': The goddess was to be freed... and all living creatures destroyed}}.}}
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]:
*
** Lampshaded by Lethe in a base conversation
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: General Zelgius, most notably when he averts a major battle between Begnion and the Laguz Alliance by challenging Skrimir to a duel, and when he refuses to aid Valtome in attacking Queen Elincia.
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